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deadline: 5-22-2008
goal: 7,500
 

Help a Child Smile

Target: Children Needing Smiles
Sponsored by: Operation Smile

For more than 25 years, Operation Smile has been helping children around the world afflicted with facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates. A child born with a facial deformity is mocked and ridiculed. Eating and speaking are difficult. These children often end up totally dependent on their families who may even shut them away, believing they are cursed. Children who grow up with unrepaired cleft lips and cleft palates have difficulty developing social skills or leading productive lives.

Since 1982, Operation Smile's volunteer medical teams have treated more that 115,000 children providing free surgery, medical care and follow up treatment. Now they are going to Madagascar. This is the organization's second medical mission to this country and we are asking that people send messages of hope to the children who will be receiving the corrective surgery. These children are now ostracized and objects of ridicule, but they will soon be able to smile without fear. Won't you help encourage them to smile? Send a message of hope.

  
THE MESSAGE

Dear [Child],

I send you a message of hope - for a new smile, a new day, a new life. I'm so happy for you!

[Your Comment]

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]  

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12:18 am PDT, Apr 17, Martina Roski, Germany
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12:14 am PDT, Apr 17, US CITIZEN, California
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12:09 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, California
Save a smile; save the world.
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12:07 am PDT, Apr 17, Amber Bogedain, Arizona
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11:36 pm PDT, Apr 16, Emelie Gagnon, Canada
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10:33 pm PDT, Apr 16, Victoria Mary Stong / Humanitarian, New York
Dear Precious Children of Madagascar: You ARE beautiful no matter what. God made you this way because he wanted to bless you with MANY kind and loving people to come into your life. Sometimes God does things we can't understand, but there IS a good reason for everything he does. You are God's special little angels and that is why you get special attention. Now you have people like me all over the world that love you very much and are praying for your good life. Unfortunately, some of your parents aren't educated enough to know that you are NOT cursed or any such nonsense like that. Your parents, due to the government not doing their jobs properly, have failed to give your communities in Madagascar schools and basic essentials for living. It's not their fault they weren't told better and that you're suffering. Pray that they will learn that you're a precious angel made by God to make a better world. You can do ANYTHING you want if you work really hard for it. I wish you all the good fortunes you can get to become a person that helps to change the world for the better. God bless you and please know that a woman named Victoria Mary Stong loves you far away in New York City in the United States of America!
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10:22 pm PDT, Apr 16, Mamie Hottinger, Ohio
Keep your chin up.....it's amazing what modern practices can do today! Smile for me....I'll be thinking of you and I know everything will go great!!!!!! God loves you!
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